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Patented Feb WITNESSES .Attorney N. PETERS, FholwLlthagmphur. Wnlhlngwh. DA C.

UNITED STATnsv PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER C. HUBBELL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

GAG E-CVOM B.

SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No. 357,201, dated February 8.1887.'

` Application-filed April 30, 1886. Serial No. 200,677. (No model.)

To all whom may concern: Adesignates the body, and B the fingers or Be `it known that I, OLIVER C. HUBBELL, a teethl The body has a convenient handle, as

citizen of the United States, residing at Olevea, and is provided with a rest, a. By a bend land, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of in the teeth B the points C are extended in- 45 5 Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Ward at an angle of, say, thirty degrees from Improvements in Gage-Combs; and I do dethe plane of the teeth between thejunction b clare the following to be afull, clear, and eX- and the body. 'Ihe teeth are easily forced act description of the invention, such as will through the hair, and the shears are employed enable others skilled lin the art to which it apto sever the hairs as they project above the 5o Io pertains to makeland use the same, reference upper face of the gage.

being had to the accompanying drawings, and rlhe points c of the extensions C rest upon to the letters and figures of reference marked the head, and as the handle is raised more or thereon, which form a part of this specicaless the hair may be cut long or short/7 tion. as may be desired. 55 f5 This invention relates to ahair-cutting gage- The gage may be made of ivory, metal, or

comb, and is essentially a gage to be used in composition. It comprises a very useful and connection with shears for that purpose. convenient help to barbers. It is probably The novelty consists in the peculiar conmore useful with the poorer classes of the pubstruction, arrangement, and adaptation of lic, in being a device which will allow one not 6o 2o parts, as willbemorefullyhereinafter set forth, an expert to perform a good job of hair-cutand specilic'ally pointed out in the claim. ting.

In hair-cutting it is desirable that all the While it is true that any ordinary comb hairs of certain parts of the head shallbe sevwould in a measure serve for this purpose, it ered at equal distances from the head. As at will be noticed that the teeth O having the 6:

2 5 present practiced, the hair is first combed up bend shown throw a large portion of the gage and then grasped and held by the left hand, into a position parallel, or nearly so, with the while the shears are applied with the right. scalp-a result that would not accrue to ordi- My device is adapted `to be manipulated nary combs. through the hair withkone hand, while the What I claim as new isl 3o shears are used across its outer face.- The The gage for hair-cutters herein described, teeth have a peculiar bend, which allows their consisting of the body A, having handle a and points to rest uponthe scalp, while the -bod rest a, the curved teeth B, and extensions C, may be raised or lowered at will. bent at b to an angle, as set forth.

The invention is .illustratedin the accompa- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 15 35 nying drawings, which form a part of this presence of two witnesses.

specification, and in Which- Figure 1 is a perspective, Fig. 2 a modica- OLIVER C. HUBBELL. tion in perspective, and Fig. 3 an edge view, of my device. Witnesses: Y 4o I will, for convenience, call the invention a C. F. BOEsT,

hair cutters gage77 or a gage-comb.77 LYDIA M. BoEsT. 

